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Research for a biosustainable future

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU Biosustain) at the Technical University of Denmark aims at developing new knowledge and technologies to help facilitate the transformation from the existing oil-based chemical industry to a more sustainable bio-based society, in which chemicals are produced biologically. The Center focuses on conducting research in developing the next generation of production organisms – so-called cell factories, for a sustainable and economically feasible bio-production of chemical compounds and therapeutic proteins. The center does this by using advanced metabolic engineering techniques and taking advantage of genome-scale science. The research is currently focused on three different model organisms: bakers yeast and E. coli for the production of valuable chemicals and nutrients, and CHO-cell lines for the production of therapeutic proteins.